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WILLIAM BAROWE'R, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. Lemie Patent No. 66,941, and .my 23, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PULLEY-BITS FOR BRIDLES.

TO ALL WHOM'IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BROWER, of the city and county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pulley-Bits for Bridles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a curb-bit with my improvement attached.

Figure 2 represents' an end view of the same.

Figure 3 represents a view of the bit, as it appears when the pulleys are removed or not used with it.

Figure 4 represents a. snaflle-bit with the pulleys applied thereto.

I am aware that pulleys have been applied to bridle-bits, but in such way that drawing upon the reins passing through them turns the bit in the horses mouth and thus injures its etiiciency, and makes them otherwise objectionable.

My invention consists first in swivelling,r the pulley-frame to thev ends ci' the bit, so that in drawing the reins through them the pulley-frames and pulleys will or may turn on the bit, and leave the latter in its natural position in the horses mouth; and my. invention further consists in making the pulley/frames removable, and supplying their places with a milled or other ornamented nut, so that the bit can be used with or without the pulleys as necessity may require.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use in reference to the drawings.

The bit-bar A may be of the curb or suaifie forni, and furnished with the usual rings BA B for the reins. Lhe openings through the bit that the ringspass through are of the saine curve as thc rings, and consequently freely move around therein. The bit-bar is extended beyond the rings far enough to form journals upon which the pulley-frames- C C can freely turn,-they being held thereto by nuts D run on to the extreme ends nf the bit-bar. The rein E that passes through or over the pulleys F 'in these frames may ,pass over the horses head, and when the'rider o1' driver` draws upon them, they turn on the bit, and do not turn the bit as by thoseherctofore used. That these bits may be used with or without the pulleys, I make them remov or Shanks, and that said journals or Shanks should not have an unsightly appearance, otherwise ornamented burs or nuts G,

y invention, I will proceed to describe the same with able from their journals I make nicely milled or that run on to thescrew-thread cut on said projectingr ends and make a very neu-t finish. Vith very vicious horses, instead of fastening the reins in the rings H H, these rings 0r the ends of these straps may be fastened to the collar, haines, or some other part of the har and the riding or driving-reins fastened to the straps above the pulley unlimited amount of leverage upon the rein.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and Patent, is

nes-s or equipment, s, which would give the user an almost desire to secure by Letters' In combination with a bridle-bit, the pulley-frames and pulleys hinged or swivelled to the ends thereof, so that by drawing upon the reins passing around said pulleys there shall be no tendency of the bit to turn in the horses mouth, substantially as described.

I also claim so combining the pulley-frames and pulleys with the bits as that they can be removed therefrom without impairing its use as an ordinaryubit, substantially as herein described and represented.

WM. BROWER.

Witnesses:

A. B. SToUen'roN, J. HoLTzMAN. 

